Originally Posted by
vagabond
So many great airlines all gone.
I've told this story before, but I'll tell it again. My first ever flight was on Northwest Orient. I still have the metal cutlery my father appropriated from the meal service on that flight across the Pacific.
Maybe they went bankrupt because they had to keep buying new cutlery?
Seriously, though, my father-in-law was a pilot with Northwest from the 50s until he retired in 1993 at age 60. Was sad to see the red tails go...